Put in the “closet”: around 200,000 employees concerned at a cost of 10 billion euros per year – BFM Business

According to a note from the Institut Montaigne, the phenomenon of “putting away” in companies would cost 10 billion euros, each year, to companies and to the Health Insurance. It’s an open secret in business . Some employees, whose presence is no longer desired, are “put away” by their employer. A technique that aims to push them insidiously towards the exit, failing to be able to dismiss them. In concrete terms, employers will gradually empty their positions of their content and assign them to tasks that are almost non-existent or meaningless. They also set them aside by excluding them from the work collective and no longer providing them with any hierarchical follow-up. An illegal practice, which can be likened to moral harassment, as Les Echos point out. This is why it remains largely taboo and so difficult to quantify. The Kantar Institute of Studies for the Institut Montaigne has nevertheless tried to measure it. According to a note from the think tank and relayed this Monday by the daily, around 200,000 employees would be affected in France. All profiles and all sectors seem to be affected. Women, on the other hand, appear to be victims of this practice a little more often. A cost that goes beyond maintaining employment dismissal” higher than that of keeping him in the company. However, this phenomenon has a real cost for the company which is not limited to maintaining the employment of “closed” employees. Estimated at 10 billion euros per year, it includes, first of all, the wages paid to workers for almost non-existent tasks. But this practice also has an indirect cost. Indeed, it is not without consequences for the health of the employees concerned, which can push them to take repeated work stoppages. An additional cost for Health Insurance which is also included in the calculation of the Institut Montaigne. To fight against this phenomenon, the think tank proposes in particular to launch an awareness campaign with companies, unions and HRDs to “shed light on these deleterious consequences. Occupational medicine could also focus part of its prevention work on these situations.